"How many cucumbers can be pickled in a washing machine?"

Not pianists in Chicago, but you can get there, and it cant do it.

So is it like plugging in a normal distribution into some arithmetic?

Consider maybe 1 + 1 ~ +-2 like Q factor, if you know what I mean.

That would help to filter out more probabilistic noise in using it to help reason with.

No. It is sampling the resulting distribution with Monte-Carlo.

That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.

Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!

>Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

I don't understand the weird tone policing that people are trying to do, there is literally nothing wrong with the parent's comment and pretending otherwise is weird.

I didn't see it as tone policing. From my point of view, I saw a very interesting application being shared and I hoped it would be good and prosperous so i can use it. When the first comment says "i hate that you do X" it is a bit discouraging towards a team of developers who have probably poured tons of free hours into making this. Words play with psychology, and it is my personal interest that these devs have good morale to make this app great, and that meand giving them feedback about obvious mistakes in a tone that does not hurt this morale. I hope that make sense

"i hate that you do x" is perfectly normal, you're being weird.

Taking "I hate that you do x" as a combative or rude dismissal is perfectly normal too.

nah, you're weird.

Please read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Comments like the one above do not belong here at all, it's childish, it brings absolutely 0 value to readers, and it's against the guidelines because it degrades the quality of HN for everyone.

And that's not even the words used, they said:

> I absolutely hate <stuff that does X> like this

That's not even the words I used either.

> I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this.

Which is

> I absolutely hate <action> like this

Which is not

> I absolutely hate <thing that does action> like this

I quite like grayjay. I just dislike this one thing it does.

I don't think it's badly worded either.

And FUTO is a commercial for-profit operation, not voluntary driven. Their devs are paid.

This is a cultural problem.

What is considered impolite in the US or the UK is considered just being straightforward in e.g. Scandinavia.

I am German, we're kind of in the middle between someone from e.g. Finland and someone from e.g. or the UK or US with what we consider "ok" or rather crossing into rude territory.

A common exchange I witnessed in a meeting at work (Nokia):

Finnish developer: And if we follow this suggestion we will all look like idiots.

UK developer: I hear you.

Deciding which one is more impolite or impolite at all is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

You get my point.

It's not even impolite in the US, the people tone policing are being very weird. It's perfectly normal to say "I hate x behavior".

It's not normal to see someone doing x behavior, initiate a conversation with them and say "I hate x behavior." They're not tone policing you when they tell you that you come off like an asshole when you do that.

That's not at all what's happening here so it's irrelevant.

Dude, be civil, is givin me second hand shame

Actually, parent is wrong. You're not supposed to do that shit on Windows either. That's what AppData is for. Writing configuration files and folders to "Documents" or the user's home folder is sloppy shit.

I agree that this should be in the XDG directory or AppData, but be kind, y'all -- this is open source, it is a gift someone has labored over and given you. There are much nicer ways to suggest improvements than calling it "sloppy shit".

edit: it's not actually open source by the OSI definition it seems [1], but it is reasonably close.

[1] https://futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/

Sure, things can always have gone better, but this is data loss/corruption territory. It's asking for trouble and hurt feelings. I think a strong response is ok.

What exactly is wrong with how they expressed themselves?

Is the word "hate" really so odious?

I was very blunt and impersonal. People worked hard on a thing and my first reaction was criticism, without even the added overall view of "I love this thing, but here is a small thing that bothers me." I could have been more courteous and human about things.

I stand by the points I made, but I could have been friendlier. I normally make an effort to be friendly as I can about things, but I absolutely did not here. I hope that nothing I said came across as vitriol, but rather, valid criticism. I'm a strong believer in criticizing the things you love, but I need to remember that random comments on HN aren't the place where people know I love the thing, and my criticism needs context.

So no, it wasn't really that odious, but it was other things. Do I feel stricken with guilt or remorse about what I said? No. Could I have been friendlier? yes. Should I have been friendlier? Probably.

I appreciate the reflection here.

Even Windows has %appdata% which is where you put stuff on disk that you need to stash away. There's also function calls iirc which will give you a handle to a temporary file if you need it.

And if you’re feeling particularly Sadomasochistic there’s always the Windows Registry.

Hey, that's NSFW content on HN!

Also I still find it funny that OpenSSH client shipped via feature uses %HOMEDIR%\.ssh

What?

My point being is people communicate and share ideas in a variety of ways.

And if it works it works!

We tech people like to get the "correct system" in place but for many it's just a means to an end.

If he wants to use Word over PowerPoint or a proper presentation software that's completely fine.

And he has the Nobel to prove it.

Yes, that was a bizarre interpretation of your comment.

Eh, this is poll data, is it not? So it's more like 46% admits they did not.

You got to adjust for shame and such. I'd bet it's up to twice as much in practice, that is 92% did not actually open a book. I'll give you that 46% do not own one, that sounds reasonable.

People are interested fundamentally in other people. That is why we read, listen, watch the Internet. It connects us to a mesh of person-hubs where you can find out more about or vibe with the people and ideas that you are attracted to. Maybe you could contribute something.

If the trend continues with LLM-related bullshitting technologies I will stop being interested in the Internet. I will stop coming. Many of us will.

Generated music is as far removed from jamming with friends as kissing a girl you like is removed from gang raping her with five of your teenage comrades over Twitch. Is that a good analogy? I think it is.

What... the... fuck? People do that sort of thing over twitch?

How about a Do-Not-Track alternative where I can specify what kind of ads I'd be OK to show up alongside my browsing? It could be a header with a hash of an entry in a public list of lists of interest. Cars, travel, fashion, whatever; any order or preference you might come up with. I could flip a switch or install a plugin in the browser to help learn from my browsing history locally, and populate that list accordingly.

Adsense needs to respect that header, is all. I'd ditch ad-block if that happened.

Provided ads are alongside my content and don't replace it's space and time.

I'd use that.

EDIT: apparently, the basic idea is there; but also cookies will now only come from the website being viewed, not tracking you across the whole Web.

I put in "m m m m m m m m m m!"

Got out all kinds. W's, v's, whatnot.

https://playground.play.ht/listen/18373

Sure, long as the sorting is also done by an AI. Like an AI category cloud. No changes to HN needed. Go for it.

if there were indeed hundreds of thousands of text editors, then yes, the way your thinking flows would be warranted

but in reality there are less then a hundred alltogether for all time

each is a project of passion, and all are resultant in a peculiar, particular and special kind of thing to do a special kind of thing

you can't select a thing the VIM way and then do something to it the Emacs way

you can't eat Catholic while working Maori

or you can, but then it is just another special thing that you made up

text isn't a thing

code is a thing (many ways, depending on the approach), prose is a thing (many ways), poetry is a thing, legal writing is a thing

text is not a problem that can be solutioned, it is not a question that has an answer